Lol so my take on the Children's Menu Discourse is that I've always found "culinary diplomacy" kind of weirdly condescending at best -- like the best thing about other cultures is what they can sell you for you to literally consume -- and yeah people are taking it way too far
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Like you're teaching your kid to be a tolerant, globetrotting citizen of the world by getting them started on exotic herbs and spices from a young age Whatever Let them eat chicken strips if they want
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Like the dunks on "White people never season anything" are fun but at the end of the day they're pointless and they have collateral damage You don't have to eat spicy shit if you don't want to It has absolutely no impact on anything Eat whatever the fuck you want
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(People who wildly overspice everything just to prove they're not "boring white people" are *more* ridiculous and annoying than people who demand the no-seasoning version of everything But I don't want to participate in a backlash-to-the-backlash If it makes you happy, do that)
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Like the people who pop off with hot takes that IPAs are "toxic masculinity" and "no one actually wants beer that bitter" are annoying too Shut the fuck up okay If I want my beer to take some of my taste buds off with every sip that's my own issue
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Anyway, I mean, my mom has a very sensitive palate, she has never been able to tolerate food with even very small amounts of heat -- not even black pepper -- and she also prefers it to be very lightly salted She is not, I assure you, the least bit white
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(And she's been this way since before she immigrated, and in countries without white people, nobody thinks of this as a "white thing" Some people just can't handle heat and some people just have tender stomachs It's fine)
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I have issues with taste that mean I can taste bitter things really strongly but can barely taste other flavours unless they are in huge quantities and people are really shitty about the foods I choose to eat.
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Turns out that reliably seasoning food in a way that means I can taste both the seasoning AND the food rather than just one of the other is really hard with fucked up taste buds.
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